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The playing fields on the corner of Trinity Road and Burntwood Lane were once part of Wandsworth Common. Sold off in 1852 on condition that nothing was ever built there, the Field escaped a London School Board scheme in 1883–84 and became the sports ground we know today. These pages tell its story, much of it from Graham R. Jackson’s A History of Trinity Fields (Wandsworth Common) (2021), with his kind permission.
How the Field was fenced off and sold by Earl Spencer to Henry McKellar of Wandsworth Lodge, how it was left out of the Wandsworth Common Act of 1871, and how it became a sports ground. The story retold, followed by Graham Jackson’s chapter in full.
In December 1883 the London School Board planned to build a school on the Field. Within six weeks local people had seen the scheme off. Nine newspaper reports, transcribed in full, with the cuttings.
The whole page of the South London Press for 31 October 1885: a week of election meetings across south London, with E. W. Fithian defending himself over the Trinity Fields site, and the young Stanley Buckmaster.
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